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by retired 7d ago
No SIM slot. Seems like Apple is only thinking of the US market. Will not be getting the Duo as I will not be able to browse the web outside my home. Edit: Rate limited so can't reply to the comments. I live in Spain, can't switch
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by retired 7d ago
I use both around six SIM and eSIM cards but my main phone subscription needs a physical SIM card so I will not be getting the Duo. Edit: Reply to nomel as I am rate limited Cheaper than roaming cost. I have eSIMs for countries I frequently
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by retired 7d ago
Currently living in Spain and I’m not able to switch to eSIM on my current plan.
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by retired 7d ago
On the international market iPhones have had SIM slots.
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by retired 7d ago
No SIM slot. So I have to carry a mobile hotspot if I want to browse the internet outside my home. It’s like Apple forgets there is a world outside the US where eSIM is not a thing.
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by retired 11d ago
I wouldn't use public transport to visit my next door neighbor.
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by retired 11d ago
A subway is only for local trips. And only a very small part of the world has subways. I have never lived in a place with a subway. I did briefly live in Amsterdam but the subway wasn't very useful there. With private transport I can g
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by retired 11d ago
Must be nice, I have not encountered such public transport in the places I lived in Europe. It's 0:45 currently. I want to grab an ice cream at McDonalds. Next bus leaves at 1:25. It takes the bus 20 minutes to get there and then it is
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by retired 11d ago
Millennial actually.
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by retired 11d ago
Haven't used public transport in a long time. I used it to commute in the past but stopped using it during COVID. Can't say I miss it. Prefer to just leave when I want, go where I want and stay there as long as I want. All while n
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by retired 11d ago
That's true in the sense that the Falklands have never been legally part of England. But Britain has exercised control over them since the 1760s, with interruptions, and they’re still a British Overseas Territory today. So saying they&
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by retired 11d ago
Russia shooting down MH17. And the several British assassinations back when they were still in the EU. Those events killed hundreds of EU citizens.
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by retired 11d ago
I thank you for correcting me! I learned something today.
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by retired 11d ago
And better healthcare. I accompanied a family member in an ambulance recently and I had the ambulance rerouted to a private clinic. They needed a €25k payment guarantee but we were able to go into surgery within a day.
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by retired 11d ago
When I was still in The Netherlands I could invest my pension in stocks, obligations, ETFs or park it as cash. I couldn't invest it in Bitcoin directly. It had to be on a special blocked account at a broker to ensure I couldn't to
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by retired 11d ago
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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by retired 11d ago
The British Isles lie on the Eurasian tectonic plate, on the northwestern part of the European continental margin. Going to "the continent" is an incorrect expression. You are already on it. I'm being highly pedantic here.
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by retired 11d ago
In all fairness, I deal with British tourists a lot and they always talk about "going to Europe" when they refer to their summer holiday in Benidorm.
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by retired 11d ago
Russia killed hundreds of EU citizens. The US has not sank to that level. PS: We are still doing trade with Russia regardless of how many of us they killed. Will happen with the US as well.
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by retired 11d ago
England is a country in Europe.
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by retired 11d ago
Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535526
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by retired 12d ago
The holding framework is in The Netherlands but HQ is still in France.
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by retired 12d ago
In true French colonial fashion: export the problem to West Africa and make it someone else's problem. That's where most of those old Peugeots and Volkswagens ended up.
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by retired 12d ago
Last time I was in The Netherlands I hardly saw any cars. Everyone was on bicycles. It seems that my personal observance doesn't match the real world.
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by retired 12d ago
It’s largely historical. France heavily encouraged diesel cars for decades, so there’s now a huge installed base. Once you’ve done that, you can’t suddenly jack up diesel taxes without making a lot of people very angry (and probably setting
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by retired 12d ago
€2.66 for diesel in The Netherlands. Which is double of the US price. Good thing the majority of The Netherlands does everything on a bicycle and doesn't need a car. It does hurt the transportation industry though. And agriculture, con
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by retired 13d ago
Does GPT-6 pass the Turing test? Or are the responses still very obviously AI?
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by retired 14d ago
Best QoL upgrade was to stop caring about politics. As an immigrant I can't vote anyway so why read about politics every day. Now I'm just happy about life.
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by retired 14d ago
I'm starting to see ChatGPT generated business promotions along the side of the road more and more often and it saddens me. I'd rather have something your daughter doodled on a piece of paper + the title of your company over some
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by retired 14d ago
It might depend on your programming language but what worked for my team was to have a file with all the feature-flags as enums/constants. That way you have a clear view of how many feature flags you currently have in your code and by

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